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elischleifer

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elischleifer··on GitHub is having issues now
We happen to build the perfect solution to avoiding GitHubs Merge Queue - ours :)

It’s also massively more performant

https://trunk.io/merge-queue

elischleifer··on Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
Of all the things Amazon brings to the marketplace - global surveillance is not one I would advertise on the superbowl.
elischleifer··on ai;dr
"The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it." - maybe a bit of an overstatement ;)
elischleifer··on TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app
100% - targeted advertising lives and breathes on data - this is par for the course
elischleifer··on TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app
This headline could be written about every major social network on our planet. Tracking pixels are not something TikTok invented.
elischleifer··on Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
Detection of copy-pasta is interesting - what it's calling out is not a deficiency in LLM's to code but in agentic rules in place that should just remind the agent to refactor into a common function when appropriate.
elischleifer··on It’s Time to Engineer the Sky
We already are performing our own unintentional form of geo-engineering with our relentless pumping of CO2 into the air. That said, not sure blocking the sun is our best plan right now for avoiding the worst of climate change. Instead of trying to have our cake and eat it too, we need to accelerate our focus on reducing carbon output, decarbonize electricity and transportation, and invest in massive amounts of energy production to the point where energy is so cheap we can use it to pull carbon from the air.
elischleifer··on Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords
fair point. I think I've just been burned too many times by dependabot looking to update single ts packages with single line changes. it's default configuration is overly aggresive
elischleifer··on Writing a debugger from scratch: Breakpoints
Working at Microsoft back in the early 00s I spent a lot of unfriendly hours with windbg. On one particular project we hunted for a terrible crash for months until it was uncovered that we were compiling against the single thread CRT when using threads extensively...whoops
elischleifer··on Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords
Just another reason not to use dependabot - it's default configuration appears to be created to burn money on GH Actions / Azure.
elischleifer··on LastPass auto renewal of deleted account
The security breaches be damned - the UI was terrible / constantly prompted me to store credit card info in LastPass and I was just not interested...but couldn't get it to stop this. deleted and moved to Dashlane.
elischleifer··on Virtual Reality – Future Trends
better and better visuals....still looking for a killer app.
elischleifer··on Japan pharma startup to begin human trials of tooth regrowth drug in 2024
This is amazing. Not interested in growing vampire teeth - but the ability to regrow teeth when lost - or get a new set of chompers without coffee stains sounds super cool :)
elischleifer··on GitHub Actions could be so much better
Another tool that tackles GitHub Action debugging head on: https://www.ci-debugger.io/

Wrap your GH Actions in a debugger breakpoint and connect into the live broken GH Action to inspect the machine, re-run commands etc..

At it's heart - realtime debugging for GitHub actions.

elischleifer··on There’s an exact replica of San Francisco in Japan
Fisherman's Wharf is the most not-San Francisco part of SF. You know if there is a Hard Rock Cafe that you are not really where the locals dine.
elischleifer··on Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but easily removed
Time to short the makers of Goo Gone?
elischleifer··on Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?
Devil's advocate...how much do we really care about these different distros at this point. The world lives out of the browser. As long as I have chrome and VS Code I'm pretty good to go.
elischleifer··on How to set breakpoints in CI jobs
Founder here. Debugging CI pipelines is a pain and it often feels like a slow, unproductive printf() debugging process. All of us who have gone through the tedious cycle of run->fail->log->fix->run->fail-> can attest to the massive waste of time it creates.

To change this, we built Trunk's CI Debugger. We initially built this for Trunk because we found that CI jobs were not stable and took multiple hours to track down the root cause of failure. The debugger gave our team a way to add conditional breakpoints, receive alerts on and debug our CI like you do your code.

You can see how this works for GitHub Action in our repo: https://github.com/trunk-io/breakpoint, but it works with any CI system you use - Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Circle CI.

To get started, check out our CI Debugger in the link above. We learned a ton building this tool, and I would love to hear your feedback and answer any questions you might have. Here's to making the debugging process in CI systems as seamless as it should be.

elischleifer··on FF4J – Feature Flags for Java
Feels like after the log4j situation - the naming convention of XforJ would be a bad omen.
elischleifer··on Eastern U.S. air quality reaches harmful levels as Canadian wildfires rage
Stay safe east coast. I remember a couple years ago when the sun was just gone from San Francisco.
elischleifer··on Blue Apron Announces 1-for-12 Reverse Stock Split
No surprise here. This business has crazy high costs and the marginal value is just not there. Subscription businesses in consumer are brutal.
elischleifer··on Set breakpoints in Jenkins and GitHub Actions
Great question. The magic is in the dynamic nature of the breakpoint triggering. If you want to SSH into a CI machine you need to know ahead of time that you want to investigate that machine and pause execution while it's going.

With the debugger, you set conditional rules like - 'if this fails - then trigger debugger and hold machine' - instead of trying to catch lightning in a bottle - it waits for you.

More details and sign-up here https://ci-debugger.io

elischleifer··on I'll give 0.1 BTC for who can give the right answer to this JavaScript Question
Is someone in danger and you need the answer to this question? blink twice if you're in trouble.
elischleifer··on Crypto Firms Start Looking Abroad as U.S. Cracks Down
Unregulated currency markets are a danger to a well functioning economy. We know that without regulation abuse will occur, it always does. It's about time that crypto, whatever magical value you want to ascribe to it, is regulated like other financial instrucments.
elischleifer··on Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark
It's not just about the visuals - its about how the data can be sliced and diced. How your pull requests behave is a very different phenomenon than from how your main branch is behaving. You need to be able to tease this apart easily.
elischleifer··on Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark
I would say that broadly the ergonomics of the product are where it is most differentiated. Datadog's solution - feels very much like a datadog product - in that it's a giant dump of data you have to craft to tell a story. Not all pipelines are the same, their execution patterns are different and expectations for Pass/Fail/Cancel differ as well.
elischleifer··on Analytics Solution for GitHub Actions. No Need to Run CI in the Dark
shockingly it doesn't
elischleifer··on Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)
Probably anything intentionally melting chemicals should come with built-in fume capture.
elischleifer··on Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges
If you're holding maybe you don't think you've lost money yet - but you spent a bunch of money on 0s and 1s and no one is going to buy those from you.
elischleifer··on Donald Trump NFT Collection Sells Out, Price Surges
The success of any initial offering will lead to long term dilution. If Donal Trump believes he can mint money from the sky - then he will do that until this grift ends.
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